A year after the Equifax hack compromised the personal information for over 145 million people, U.S. Democratic Senators Elizabeth Warren and Mark Warner introduced the Data Breach Prevention and Compensation Act last week. The new legislation would expand the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) authority over data breaches by creating an Office of Cybersecurity, which would …
The drafting, negotiation, and passage of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) is an annual event that sets the annual budget for the Department of Defense. During this time Congress is able to exert control over the priorities, guiding principles, and issues that will be addressed by the department in the coming year. The 2018 …
On March 20, the House Intelligence Committee commenced with hearings on Russia’s potential interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential elections. On the first day of the hearings, former FBI Director James Comey and NSA Director Admiral Michael Rogers were called to testify. In the wake of these hearings, many prominent members of both political parties …
We live in a truly digital age. 2.5 exabytes of data are created each day. Mikal Khoso, “How Much Data is Produced Every Day?,” Level Blog (May 13, 2016). Put in other words, we fill 250,000 Libraries of Congress per day. This data comes in all forms, and particularly with the rise of the Internet …
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Developers for nearly every major platform have been racing to roll out fixes for the flaws that let hackers access vulnerable data, including saved passwords. Source: Meltdown, Spectre: What We Know About the Major Cyber Security Flaws and How to Protect Yourself
Imagine the following: A mid-level HR employee receives an unsolicited resume. The company’s policy is to forward all unsolicited and suspicious emails to a designated mailbox maintained by the IT group for further inspection before opening any attachments or clicking any links. The employee without thinking opens the attachment. This seemingly minor mistake allowed a …
At a Senate intelligence committee hearing in November on Social Media Influence in the 2016 U.S. Elections, Sen. Dianne Feinstein said about Russian interference in the 2016 election, “What we’re talking about is a cataclysmic change. What we’re talking about is the beginning of cyber warfare.” Source: Election Interference, As We Understand It Today, Is …